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Wakfu is a damn good game.. I just can't honestly say it's good enough to pay for. Honestly, their payment model makes it so the majority of the mechanics are now useless and untouchable because it splits the populace into paid and unpaid.

You absolutely need the free players to be involved in the economy and politics, because otherwise, you have an barren, empty game, where you have to grind for days to get the shit you need because there aren't enough paid members out there to pitch in.

You need 50 high quality, rare wood to make some shoulder armor? Well, get chopping. Since only paid members can use the professions, you have to grind all the way up to the highest skill to get it. All that extra wood you're going to end up with? Yeah.. there's no one out there to buy it from you. Worse still, now you have to make dozens of lower level armors to grind up your armorcrafting to get those shouldpads you need! Guess what else you aren't selling to anyone...

In short, it's a serious problem. Pay to play is counter-intuitive to a game that can only thrive in a bustling player community.

A big problem they had was going 'free to play' and failing to directly mention that free players have incredibly limited access and that paid players can never be downgraded to free play. I got the game completely free and I had no desire to spend any money on the game after getting a taste of what the 'full' experience was actually like.

It's a mediocre game and they just went in with the wrong mindset. No one in their right mind would pay monthly for a game as simple and shallow as it really was.

This would be a fantastic trailer if they were making a saturday morning cartoon instead of a game. Entertaining and pretty, but for F***'s sake, would be fantastic if they spent all that time and money on the game instead of rendering this sort of thing.

Eh, I think beta pretty much sums up the feel of the game and what you could expect. Since you got a copy for free you won't really lose anything for trying it out again. There are a bunch of topics on this board (which I started) and on the official board asking what the game is like once you get out of the tutorial. If you decide to try it out again and decide you don't like it, Id be more than willing to take the game off your hands :)

No no no no.... You never judge an MMO by it's beta! That's such an ill-informed way of looking at the game. Countless patches, updates, tweaks, fixes, and add-ons go into every MMO every month. Playing the beta may be a nice way to get some free play in, but the changes that take place afterwords don't make it a fair metric. Especially if you were the GOOD kind of beta tester who reported glitches, balance issues, and suggestions. These things make a big difference.